City Municipal Council v. Srinivasa Reddy
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru (NC: 2025:KHC:19135), H.P. Sandesh J., decided 06.06.2025 - RSA No. 2068 of 2021, City Municipal Council Kanakapura Town (appellant) v. Srinivasa Reddy (respondent). Regular second appeal under Section 100 CPC against decrees dated 20.03.2015 in O.S.No.499/2014 and dated 20.03.2021 in R.A.No.5059/2019 (Old R.A.No.14/2017). Appeal dismissed for non-prosecution after the appellant's counsel was permitted to retire and the appellant failed to appear or engage fresh counsel; impleading application not considered. Keywords: non-prosecution, counsel retirement, Section 100 CPC, second appeal, impleadment.
What did the court decide?
The appeal is dismissed because, despite service of notice of its counsel's retirement, the appellant took no steps to either appear before the Court or engage any counsel, and is therefore not interested in pursuing the matter.